charlesfarm
ArboristSite Operative
This morning, I was cutting firewood. Some tree guys had come through after our last ice storm, did a lot of drop it and leave it work. An old lady in town had a number of Ash trees (and cottonwoods) dropped at her place and she has been letting me come in and cut all I want -- FREE WOOD and loads of Ash to boot!!! The guys had topped out a big old ash tree, but left the trunk and crotch standing. She had wanted the entire tree down, and asked if we could get it on the ground. So, I notched it, made the back cut and dropped it while leaving only about 2" above ground! Tree was 48" in diameter when I measured it. Ms361 w/ 24" bar worked like a charm and I sure was happy!
Cut the trunk into rounds and was moving them around to quarter them to load up my Amish friend's wagon who was going to take them to my house for me in exchange for cutting a load for him. Was moving the bottom round around to lay it out of the way, and it dropped really fast when I had almost layed it down on the cut stump. Got my right hand out, but my left wasn't so lucky. The round smashed my middle finger at about the first knuckle and popped the end of it like a grape . Didn't feel it for about 5 minutes or so, until when my body's endorphines wore off. Man does it hurt!!! I'm just glad it wasn't worse.
I've been more worried about hurting myself with the chainsaw than with the wood, but that stuff is heavy, especially those rounds -- I'll certainly be a lot more careful in the future!! Thought I'd share so it might help somebody else avoid this same type of thing!
God bless,
Chris
Cut the trunk into rounds and was moving them around to quarter them to load up my Amish friend's wagon who was going to take them to my house for me in exchange for cutting a load for him. Was moving the bottom round around to lay it out of the way, and it dropped really fast when I had almost layed it down on the cut stump. Got my right hand out, but my left wasn't so lucky. The round smashed my middle finger at about the first knuckle and popped the end of it like a grape . Didn't feel it for about 5 minutes or so, until when my body's endorphines wore off. Man does it hurt!!! I'm just glad it wasn't worse.
I've been more worried about hurting myself with the chainsaw than with the wood, but that stuff is heavy, especially those rounds -- I'll certainly be a lot more careful in the future!! Thought I'd share so it might help somebody else avoid this same type of thing!
God bless,
Chris